S. H. Cullinane The relativity problem in finite geometry. Feb. 20, 1986.

This is the relativity problem: to fix objectively

a class of equivalent coordinatizations and to
ascertain the group of transformations S mediating
between them.
-- H. Weyl, The Classical Groups,
Princeton Univ. Pr., 1946, p. 16

In finite geometry "points" are often defined as ordered n-tuples of a

finite (i.e., Galois) field GF(q). What geometric structures ("frames of reference,"
in Wey's terms) are coordinatized by such n-tuples? Weyl's use of "objectively"
seems to mean that such structures should have certain objective -- i.e., purely
geometric -- properties invariant under each S.

This note suggests such a frame of reference for the affine 4-space over GF(2),
and a class of 322,560 equivalent coordinatizations of the frame.

The frame: A 4x4 array.

The invariant structure:

The following set of 15 partitions of the frame into two 8-sets.

A representative coordinatization:

0000 0001 0010 0011

0100 0101 0110 0111
1000 1001 1010 1011
1100 1101 1110 1111

The group: The group AGL(4,2) of 322,560 regular affine transformations

of the ordered 4-tuples over GF(2).